A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D RockefellerMadam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney SmithHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert LyndBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas JeffersonWhat I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais NinTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonI always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine MansfieldFew things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William HazlittFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar GracianLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeLaughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Sir Thomas AquinasRead as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George HerbertFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Sir Thomas AquinasLove will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
OvidI'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Montgomery BurnsI feel that I contributed well, but my strength and energy in that department is running out. I made, not friendships, never got anywhere like that, but you know I've formed slight bonds with people and they were lovely and gracious
Lesley BrainFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranLove demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean NathanOne measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton FadimanWe content ourselves that friendship is a reality, and not a fancy - that it is built upon a rock.
Douglas FairbanksYes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Edgar Watson HoweAnd even though we don’t have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers. [on coach Larri Passos]
Gustavo KuertenThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Sir Thomas AquinasNo one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis CrawfordIt may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Edgar Watson HoweFriendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max JacobFriendship is essentially a partnership.
AristotleOne friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks AdamsFriendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
OuidaFriendship is Love without his wings!
Lord ByronTis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles LambFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusOne's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone De BeauvoirIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel JohnsonAll love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella WilcoxI would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
Jacques ChiracFriendship is but a name. I love no one
Napoleon BonaparteFriendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie ColwinFriendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman CapoteLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton ChekhovPerhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George EliotIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte BronteLove is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles PeguyIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth TynanFriendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibres, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
Sir John VanbrughA friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
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